Example sentences of "it [be] impossible [verb] which " in BNC.

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1 It 's impossible to say which city Bashlachev belonged to because he was raised in the northern town of Cherepovets , studied at Sverdlovsk University and spent the last few years of his life wandering between Moscow , Leningrad and Siberia .
2 ISSUED HERE as a double 12″ white label pack , so it 's impossible to say which mixes will actually end up on the street .
3 There are 3,000 species , however , and it 's impossible to tell which this is .
4 Since the ‘ history of belief and feeling ’ can not be traced , it is impossible to conclude which alternative is the true one .
5 IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to say which major party will win today 's election .
6 It is impossible to tell which is earth and which is sky , though eastward what looks like a whiter than usual cloud must surely be snow on the fells of Furness .
7 That convergence is the concluding point of Animal Farm , which ends on a sudden vision of a resemblance , even an identity , between the warring representatives of two dictatorial orders : ‘ … already it was impossible to say which was which ’ .
8 When the case came to court , the magistrate evidently decided that it was impossible to say which party was to blame in a scuffle of this sort .
9 Ridley J. held that putting the 190 boxes on the rail was not in this case an unconditional appropriation because it was impossible to say which of them was appropriated to any given buyer .
10 It was impossible to know which direction they were going in .
11 She was torn between the urge to dance around saying ‘ Nah , nah — he did n't come , ’ and an inclination to draw Sam 's head upon her shoulder and stroke her hair soothingly : it was impossible to know which would have maddened Sam more .
12 It was impossible to tell which from his expressionless gaze .
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